April 28, 2014

Living Room Gallery Wall Around TV

The gallery wall around our TV is done!

I can't stop staring at it!

We got cable back this weekend (we cancelled it almost 2 months ago but my boyfriend couldn't go without his sports any longer so we got it back haha) but I couldn't focus on any of the shows that were on because I kept looking at our hard work :)

I thought it was going to take a day to hang everything but it took a week. I kept moving things around, adding/subtracting prints, and filling/painting extra holes so things took longer than expected. The extra time was worth it though and we couldn't be happier with how it turned out :)

It's a lyric from AWOLNATION'S song "Kill Your Heroes" that has stuck with me every since I heard it. Would you be interested in a printable of the quote? I can customize the colors :)

Speaking of colors: the turtle shell was originally a creamy white color that I had planned to leave as-is but I kept contemplating the idea of painting it yellow.

I asked a few of my blogger friends what they thought and all of them said to paint it so I did! I love the result and I'm so thankful I can bounce ideas off of them :)

When I was choosing the art for our gallery wall, someone commented saying they were impressed with how much pink art I included since my boyfriend and I live together. Thankfully my boyfriend is really easy going and doesn't really care about what I do to our home! He has a say in every idea/project I come up with but he trusts my vision and typically loves the outcome of whatever we've done. He's a keeper :)

Taking the art almost all the way to the top of our 10' ceilings and out to the edges of our curtains helps shrink the size of our 55" TV and makes it blend in a little more!